ProSys and Mynah Partner on Operator Training

Sept. 26, 2014
The partnership will combine simulation software with alarm management to help improve operator training for process industries.

With a reduction in technical know-how and people, human reliability has become an increasing concern in industry. This is punctuated within process industries that face mounting public pressures in the wake of catastrophic events.

Mynah Technologies and ProSys have decided to pool their respective talents in simulation-based training and alarm management to partner on operator training and certification services for process industries.

This partnership will combine Mynah’s Mimic Simulation Software and dynamic model engineering services with ProSys operations optimization and training services. Together, the companies will provide process industries with offerings for certifying operators and improving operations effectiveness.

“With ProSys’s knowledge of process engineering and controls and Mynah’s simulation platform and process modeling, we are now teamed to deliver operator training solutions that address today’s problems in the process industries,” said Dustin Beebe, president and CEO of ProSys. “Simulations allow us the opportunity to train operators for the operational situations they need most—critical modes of operation like startup, shutdown and process upsets. With this, we can train a new generation of operators without having to re-experience all of the incidents of the past 30 years.”

In addition to using the Mimic Simulation Software for training purposes, ProSys plans to use it for testing of alarm management within plants. ProSys will be able to use Mimic to better predict and eliminate errors in alarm management systems.

About the Author

Aaron Hand | Editor-in-Chief, ProFood World

Aaron Hand has three decades of experience in B-to-B publishing with a particular focus on technology. He has been with PMMI Media Group since 2013, much of that time as Executive Editor for Automation World, where he focused on continuous process industries. Prior to joining ProFood World full time in late 2020, Aaron worked as Editor at Large for PMMI Media Group, reporting for all publications on a wide variety of industry developments, including advancements in packaging for consumer products and pharmaceuticals, food and beverage processing, and industrial automation. He took over as Editor-in-Chief of ProFood World in 2021. Aaron holds a B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and an M.S. in Journalism from the University of Illinois.

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